Sentences with phrase «with humdrum»

Recruiters flip through applications quickly, so don't remain another face in the crowd with a humdrum breakdown of skills.

Or they suggest religions or dusty belief systems, with Marxist tracts, Rastafarian images, or references to fascism combined unsettlingly with the humdrum.

Score Rush feels a good bit like Mars Matrix in that regard, itself a fantastic shooter with humdrum enemy design where the opposition feels like little more than placeholders for players to train their lasers upon.

Yeah, sounds about right, with a humdrum 1,280 x 800 pix res display in tow, quad - core 1.2 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB on - board storage, microSD support, 4,000 mAh battery, and 5 MP / 2 MP cameras.

I recognize that failing to plan is planning to fail but going with the humdrum of life seems to be more interesting for most of us.

The film's episodic structure (split into three parts), and emphasis on character over narrative make Zero Motivation feel like an extended pilot for a TV sitcom about soldiers dealing with their humdrum day - to - day lives.

Recap: John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) are struggling with their humdrum marriage.

My astonishment alternated with a humdrum certainty: «Of course.»

So while it's easy to get exasperated by the obsession with the humdrum at these meetings, analysts» financial nit - picking is kind of crucial — especially with visionaries like Musk.

Not exact matches

But competing over humdrum necessities that have the lowest profit margins, such as toiletries and laundry detergent, seems like a mug's game to Mark Foote, the former CEO of Zellers, who was tasked with winding down the outgoing Canadian retailer when Target assumed its leases in 2012.

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

But they also provide a place to sleep, have fun and mingle with colleagues — not in humdrum office parks, but in exotic locations around the world, in the European countryside close to urban centers or in warm - weather destinations like Bali.

She gives us pictures of how women can find a thrilling, transformative love that fits into real life, right in the middle of all the humdrum things we're perpetually pestered with, like financial worries and annoying relatives.

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

Along with these radiant moments comes the abiding that is neither towering nor spare but steadily evident in the humdrum and hand - over-hand routines of our waking hours.

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

They know only the humdrum of existence with its duties and demands, its bits of hopes and joys, its many sorrows and its final death.

With this delicious list I'll never again have an excuse to settle for a humdrum salad.

Batting practice, with many fans hardly paying mind to the humdrum workouts, can be even more dangerous than games.

The rest of the first half was relatively humdrum, with more fouls than chances (Vitolo alone committed five fouls).

There is nothing wrong with PB&J, but with a little planning and creativity you can turn humdrum lunches into something your kids look forward to.

In recent years, most defeated Prime Ministers have walked away from frontline politics altogether, with few willing to descend to humdrum of Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet.

When first an MP, he shared an office with James Purnell, who now prefers BBC digital policy to the humdrum world of Labour politics, and seems on a trajectory to end up appropriating ideas from Meacher.

After the energy draining high of recent days Brown will return to humdrum realities, the prospect of a budget later this month with no spare cash to spend, MPs» expenses, the row over what his City Minister Lord Myners knew about Sir Fred Goodwin's pension.

A few years ago, Snyder's team and other researchers found that if NO reacts with GAPDH, GAPDH can then bind to another protein that whisks GAPDH away from its humdrum sugar metabolism tasks and into the nucleus, the cell's control center.

But with so many humdrum films being made, we welcome any technology that will boost the audience - engagement factor.

Yet all these activities seem humdrum compared with what happened during the Third Intermediate Period, from approximately 1075 to 656 B.C. With startling suddenness, mummification went mainstrwith what happened during the Third Intermediate Period, from approximately 1075 to 656 B.C. With startling suddenness, mummification went mainstrWith startling suddenness, mummification went mainstream.

It is with great reluctance that I prepare to betray my pre-teen self: here are some sneaky ways you can use physical yoga principals to invigorate your body while doing 6 humdrum activities (publicly or privately).

This light, clear green with yellow undertones is a gorgeous accent color that makes an otherwise humdrum outfit stand out.

It stars Richard Gere as John Clark, a Chicago estate lawyer with a good, albeit humdrum, life.

A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving cisgender boyfriend.

The father's emotional incapacity and stubborness coupled with his fragility is finely played by Bruce Dern and Will Forte as the long suffering son whose own humdrum life is of no interest to his self - absorbed dad is also a delight.

Claire (Tina Fey) and Phil Foster (Steve Carell) are an average boring married couple from New Jersey with two young kids and a home and sex life that have become routine and humdrum.

Sleight is a strong feature debut for Dillard with great moments that tend to pick up the more humdrum bulk of the film.

Agnes Jaoui infuses the film with a distinctive visual style, peppering the film with impressionistic paintings which fade into the drab surroundings of the world of the film — the entrance to the driving school, a concrete slab of a building — neatly linking into the film's idea that romance fades into humdrum mediocrity.

It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian - born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured.

Shakespearean at heart, Coogler's film mixes royal melodrama with big spectacle and sometimes the excellent small - scale elements get overwhelmed by the humdrum larger routine hard at work.

His last two big American thrillers, Prisoners and Sicario, were striking for their cinematic ingenuity and the depth with which they probed the psyches of their central characters in what could otherwise have been humdrum exercises in formula.

The film opens, in fact, with one of those seemingly humdrum exchanges: the delivery of a package.

The revelation of the person responsible for Jessica's disappearance isn't so much a twist as an inevitable, easily foreseeable turn; a fairly humdrum climax fails to compensate for the disappointing lack of surprise — rendering this Gift more akin to a lump of coal, albeit one with an uncommonly inviting sheen.

Director Taika Waititi brings his comedic flair to the Thor universe swapping the humdrum Shakespearean tone with Monty Python.

Arriving at just around the moment when the Star Wars revival threatens to switch over from big - ticket sci - fi / fantasy event to humdrum annual clock - in, Rian Johnson's middle chapter appears blithely and wonderfully unconcerned with paying off the supposed mysteries of its predecessor or setting up a grand finale.

While the pot boiled unheeded, I watched with millions of others — my humdrum activities suddenly forgotten.

The events are set in the 1930s, dealing with a recently released bank robber, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty, Heaven Can Wait) who hooks up with a small town waitress, Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway, The Thomas Crown Affair), who is looking to get out of her humdrum life.

The upcoming summer movie season promises to be one of the biggest in years, so it's a bit of a surprise that studios are limping (rather than sprinting) into that period with such a humdrum selection of films.

The 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer improves after a grainy, oversaturated start (colours remain a little too «Columbia bold» throughout) while the 5.1 Dolby Digital soundmix is humdrum and another offender of the dreaded dance club anomaly: Shouldn't the music be competing with voices — rather than yielding to them — in San Francisco's hottest disco?

On closer inspection, it appears to have a humdrum seen - it - before storyline which includes an inconceivable romance with a girl half his age.

My telecollaborative project began with a small idea — a social studies assignment that I thought might beef up my humdrum government unit.

these include: matching up exercise reading a definition of the idiom and deciding which idiom is being referred to improving upon texts in which students replace accurate but humdrum phrases with idiomatic ones learned.

The H1 had died, and Hummer had only the humdrum H2 and the laughable H3 in its lineup, so an H3 with a truck bed would've totally made sense and saved the brand, right?